Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

CPT Ethanolic:Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

Drinking 4-5 anything (other than water) per day will probably give the same effect though.

miss diminutive:CPT Ethanolic: Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

Drinking 4-5 anything (other than water) per day will probably give the same effect though.

This. The myth part is that beer is exceptional, over and above its calorific contribution.

On the other hand, wasn't this debunked two decades ago? On the other hand, I guess that makes it just about ripe for the Torygraph.

miss diminutive:CPT Ethanolic: Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

Drinking 4-5 anything (other than water) per day will probably give the same effect though.

CPT Ethanolic:Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

An extra 1k calories per day will eventually put about 100 extra lbs on you if you dont try to correct for it.

zombat:miss diminutive: CPT Ethanolic: Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

Drinking 4-5 anything (other than water) per day will probably give the same effect though.

zombat:miss diminutive: CPT Ethanolic: Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

Drinking 4-5 anything (other than water) per day will probably give the same effect though.

Yes but who ever heard of a orange juice binge drinker?

A friend's husband would drink nearly a half gallon of whole milk a day.

Beer has fewer calories per 100ml than wine, spirits, and even orange juice, it is claimed.

Except a serving of beer is 450 - 500 mL or so (a pint), a serving of wine is 100-200 mL (half a cup or less), and a serving of spirits is 20-30 mL.

Meaning that beer has, in dietary terms, more than twice the calories of wine and over an order of magnitude more than spirits even if the calories per volume are relatively similar.

This is, like, grade-school math, so I'm not sure wtf they're trying to say here. I know there was a study showing the beer "belly" specifically wasn't a thing, people just get fat if they consume calories, but nothing supporting the idea that Beer is a low-calorie food.

//Maybe relative to, like, soda or some shiat, but eating sugar packets on lard is lower-calorie than soda.

CPT Ethanolic:Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

You're probably <i>adding</i> the beer to your total daily intake instead of replacing something else. I've weighed the same amount for 20 years, give or take 2-3 pounds. If I'm gonna have a few beers, I've have a light dinner and not snack in the evening.

Zeb Hesselgresser:Beer doesn't make you fat. Sitting on a bar stool for 5 hours a day makes you fat.

Sitting on a barstool and knocking back an extra 1000-1200 Calories a day makes you fat. It doesn't have to be beer but culturally, that's what we tend to sit down with friends and consume. So unless you're getting together with friends and drinking a nice warm pot of green tea, it is the beer making you fat.

The over consumption of beverages, especially in the USA, is generally bad. The amount of calories people ingest from drinking soft drinks, juice, energy drinks, and other beverages will have the same effect as beer, essentially.

But let's talk alcohol now. Of course, calories in beer come from the alcohol, mainly, because it is so calorie-dense.Check out this chart. It doesn't display correctly in some browsers, but you'll get the idea. For beers of equal alcohol content, there is a difference of about 25 calories for a beer that's drier (pilsner) compared to a beer with more unfermentable sugars in suspension. So if we look at something like Troegs Nugget Nectar (a dry double IPA at 7.5% ABV), there are 300 calories in one pint. Drink two of those at the pub one night and you'll have to run 4 miles to burn off the excess calories you just consumed.

So while beer itself doesn't cause a beer belly, the alcohol contained in beer can prevent you from losing weight and burning the calories you're taking in. So it may be a myth that beer, in name, is the cause, but it is still high calorie and should be a limited part of your diet.

zombat:miss diminutive: CPT Ethanolic: Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

Drinking 4-5 anything (other than water) per day will probably give the same effect though.

Yes but who ever heard of a orange juice binge drinker?

Are we talking fresh picked, fresh squeezed, perfectly ripe? What do you mean I've already had half a gallon? Keep 'em coming!

And I've had 3/4 gallon of milk in a single sitting. So yeah, there's that.

miss diminutive:CPT Ethanolic: Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

Drinking 4-5 anything (other than water) per day will probably give the same effect though.

I don't know... if I drink 4-5 Milk of Magnesia per day, I don't think I'd gain weight.

czetie:miss diminutive: CPT Ethanolic: Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

Drinking 4-5 anything (other than water) per day will probably give the same effect though.

This. The myth part is that beer is exceptional, over and above its calorific contribution.

On the other hand, wasn't this debunked two decades ago? On the other hand, I guess that makes it just about ripe for the Torygraph.

But something something alcohol. I don't get drunk downing my 12 pack of coke so it must be ok, right.

I have never heard of a beer drinker getting diabetes. Coke drinkers on the other hand.

miscreant:miss diminutive: CPT Ethanolic: Given that a normal guy can drink 4-5 beers in a sitting pretty easily, there's around 1000 calories on top of everything else he consumes that day. If you think that taking in half the recommended daily calories over a few hours and then eating isn't going to put on weight, you're delusional. If I go a month without drinking, I tend to drop around 10 lbs.

Drinking 4-5 anything (other than water) per day will probably give the same effect though.

I don't know... if I drink 4-5 Milk of Magnesia per day, I don't think I'd gain weight.

With all the diarrhoea, you'll be lucky if you have any bones left after a week.